Tens of millions vote in US election as Harris-Trump contest heads toward nail-biting finish

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump remain neck-and-neck over weeks of polling, leaving Americans to wait with bated breath for results

Tens of millions of voters went to the polls in America on Tuesday, see-sawing between anxiety and hope, to send one of the closest and most consequential presidential elections hurtling towards an uncertain finish.

The Democrat Kamala Harris and her Republican opponent, Donald Trump, appeared locked in a knife-edge contest with hardly any daylight between the pair in national opinion polls that have barely budged in weeks.

When do polls close?

Trump v Harris on key issues

When we’ll know the results